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    Computer freezes while playing video games.

    I had a similar issue to this apart from my pc would only freeze for about 10 to 15 seconds or so whilst playing and then the game would go back to normal although the time between freezes was random, about every one to two minutes. I found that this had nothing to do with my GPU or CPU but my...
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    Question High CPU Usage & System Lockups (Taskhostw.exe)

    Okay, I'll have a look at live update 6 to make sure everything is up to date. Its good to know that the rest of the processes are okay. I will check the windows audio driver to make sure everything is okay there as well. Thankyou mate
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    Question High CPU Usage & System Lockups (Taskhostw.exe)

    A few weeks ago I did a completely new clean boot. Removed everything and then reinstalled everything as a fresh start (i.e. I didn't restore from a backup) and it started off ok but soon the issue came back. My motherboard is an MSI H110M Pro-Vh
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    Question High CPU Usage & System Lockups (Taskhostw.exe)

    - Neojack, I tried your suggestion. The issue still persists but doesn't seem as regular. Thanks again, I'll keep you updated. - Colif, thanks for helping me try to work this out. I have located Taskhostw.exe in the system 32 folder, as well as a few MANIFEST files, which also include the...
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    Question High CPU Usage & System Lockups (Taskhostw.exe)

    Hi neojack, thank you for taking the time to look into the problem. I will try your suggestions to see if it fixes the issue. Thanks again
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    Question High CPU Usage & System Lockups (Taskhostw.exe)

    Yes, I created the ISO on a USB stick. Formatted both SSD & HDD and then reinstalled Windows 10 onto the SSD. It happened on a previous SSD that I had so I sent that one back thinking it was the SSD, got a replacement and the same thing has happened
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    Question High CPU Usage & System Lockups (Taskhostw.exe)

    Over the past few months, I have been getting constant Windows 10 lockups. Even when my pc is idle, I will find that everything will become unresponsive for about 5 - 10 seconds and the Hard drive light turns solid red. I look at Taskmanager and it says that my PC is using 100% CPU but does not...